1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dorset South Constituency – Biography of Hinchingbrooke

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dorset South

CANDIDATE : Hinchingbrooke

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Viscount Hinchingbrooke, heir to the Earl of Sandwich, has been M.P. for South Dorset since 1941. One of his ancestors, Baron. Montagu, was M.P. for Weymouth in 1660. On leaving Cambridge he worked for two years as a factory hand in electrical engineering and later became a director of a group of companies in that business. He went with Lord Baldwin as his private secretary to the Ottawa Conference in 1932. During the war he served as a captain with The Northamptonshire?Regiment and later held a staff appointment. He was the first chairman of the Tory Reform Committee.

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